Re: [xmonad] Remove outside borders from windows

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:30:52PM -0400, wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

Quoting Zach Hirsch :

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be due to the window borders; using NoBorders fixes this, but it also removes the borders _between_ windows, which I don't want. Is there some way to remove just the outside borders?

There currently is not. xmonad ships out to X11 for drawing borders, and the borders you can ask X11 to draw are quite rudimentary. If you want to implement this, you have basically two choices:

Might there be some way to trick xmonad into thinking that the screen is slightly larger (e.g. two pixels taller) than it actually is? I haven't actually looked into it, it just occurred to me as a (crazy?) possibility... -Brent